I'm doing an online course in C#. Problem is, the course assumes
Visual Studio 2003 and I only have access to Visual Studio 2005. For a
lot of things this doesn't matter (too much), but sometimes the
differences cause me problems.

I have a generic method in a class as follow:
T Get<T>(string key)
{
....

Quick question:
Is it possible to use different Solution Configurations  ( Release / Build )
in order to determine which DB you are connecting to ( Dev vs Live)
I would have thought that the Project Settings where specific for a build

I am trying to send email in C#. I wrote 2 pieces of code:
1.
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.From = "from_address";

Is it correct to say as long as you are dealing with project that are
buiding assembly dll it doesn't matter if the field
Copy Local  is set to True or if it set to False.
This field Copy Local is a field that is displayed when you use property on

I am writing a Windows application, with an SQL Server (Express)
database.  The application is single user.  The Windows application is
the only application that accesses the database.
I have been programming Windows application for years, but using Visual

I have created an application in C#.
The application will be distributed to many users.
Some new features will be added later to the app.
Now i want to create a functionality that will be like

I would need a function to copy unsigned short values from a IntPtr to
a ushort[]-array, but the Marshal.Copy-function only support the
short[]-array!
At the moment I do it the following way:

Is there a way to replace a character in a string without having the
framework allocate a new string the way string.Replace does?
I need the below code to work, alothough it says the indexer is read only.
string B = "412345";

I've searched around on Google Groups for a while on this topic, and
haven't found anything useful. I use a FileSystemWatcher to catch
filesystem events. I would also like to get an event when a file is
opened and when it is closed. It would also be nice if I could get more

Hi i have using .net 1.1 (vs 2003)
in my application i am facing a problem , that is the text messages on
the messagebox  does not appear most of the time.
Please any one have any idea regarding this problem ?

I didn't dare raise my hand at TechEd... why WF and not WWF?
Are they also afraid of being sued by that wildlife fund company
thingy?
We have WPF and WCF, why not WWF?

Yesterday I got the idea to use remoting for the test interface between our
Windows Xp Embedded - based device and our system test application.
I started looking in the MSDN help and made the code below.
My server class (RemotingServer) is located in one assembly (LibS.dll) used

I am doing a C# course at the moment (2609) and I am struggling with
delegates.
I have limited understanding of their use, however I often learn by looking
at examples with a short description.

I want to build mechanizm when users and password are in encripted text
file. And authenticate against this file.
Before I start this task, I wanted to ask if there is such mechanizm in
Framework.